How-To Geek on MSN

3 no-code Python tools that automate Excel spreadsheets in seconds

Huge Excel sheets can be annoying, but they don't have to be.

Self-teaching Python: If you choose the wrong first book, 90% of people will quit

Have you ever had the experience of buying a book thinking, "I'm going to start programming," only to stop after the first 20 ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I asked Claude Code to build its own replacement, and it took just 15 minutes

15 minutes and one crazy idea ...

When I thought 'Not this transcription again', I had AI make it for me—5 steps to get business tools even if you can't write code

Are you doing the same transcription every month?Picking up numbers from multiple files and pasting them into another table.

Researchers made AI agents better by turning academic papers into working code — no retraining required

ScholarEvolve uses published research to improve AI agents, raising Qwen's AppWorld task completion from 69% to 81.4% without retraining the model.
Forkast News

Bifrost and Cloudflare Both Replaced Tool Catalogs with Code Generation. The Agent Tooling Layer Is Standardizing on a Pattern Nobody Named.

Two independent infrastructure vendors reached the same architectural conclusion: agents should write code instead of calling ...
Analytics Insight

Three Ways to Speed Up Python Code With Numba: A Practical Guide

Overview: Numba is a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that turns Python functions into fast machine code. In one tested example, a single decorator gave about a 50 t ...

AWS just made it way easier to use SageMaker to fine-tune AI models for tool use and your firm's specific tasks

The cookbook supplies examples for chat fine-tuning, mathematics, programming and preference learning. AWS also says it provides agent skills to help coding assistants handle tasks across preparation, ...

INE Expands Network Automation Training With Infrastructure as Code Learning Path for Cisco Engineers

The Infrastructure as Code for Cisco Engineers learning path is available to INE Premium and Enterprise learners. It also includes hands-on labs where professionals can apply these automation concepts ...
HackerNoon

Why AI Coding Agents Struggle on Windows (And How to Fix Them)

Coding agents trip over PowerShell and hang on dev servers. Four fixes that hold on Windows: argument arrays, hooks, process ...
xenospectrum

Python 3.15 Makes UTF-8 the Default, Easing Windows Text Issues — but Legacy Code Needs a Check

Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...
HackerNoon

AI Can Write Your CS Assignment. But Can You?

AI can write code that runs. CS coursework tests whether you understand it. Here's where AI code fails and how to check it ...